2007 Workshop

4th Annual Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop (2007)

September 7-9, 2007

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 7

9:00am - 10:15am ANDREW SEPIELLI (Rutgers)

What To Do When You Don't Know What To Do

Chair: Kevin Toh (Indiana)

10:35am - Noon JACOB ROSS (USC)

Cognitivism About Practical Reasons: You'd Better Not Believe it

Chair: Remy Debes (Memphis)

Noon - 1:30pm LUNCH

1:30pm - 2:45pm BRAD MAJORS (Wisconsin)

The Natural and the Normative

Chair: Janice Dowell (Nebraska)

3:05pm - 4:20pm NICHOLAS STURGEON (Cornell)

Doubts about the Supervenience of the Ethical ***KEYNOTE ADDRESS***

4:40pm - 6:00pm RALPH WEDGWOOD (Oxford)

The Moral Evil Demons

Chair: Christian Coons (Bowling Green)

8:00pm - 11:00pm RECEPTION (Tripp Commons, 2nd floor, Memorial Union)

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8

9:00am - 10:15am PEKKA VÄYRYNEN (UC - Davis)

A Theory of Hedged Moral Principles

Chair: Katherine Dimitriou (UNC - Chapel Hill)

10:35am - Noon DORIT BAR-ON (UNC - Chapel Hill) & MATTHEW CHRISMAN (Edinburgh)

Ethical Neo-Expressivism

Chair: Ben Bradley (Syracuse)

Noon - 1:30pm LUNCH

1:30pm - 2:45pm DAVID COPP (Florida)

Darwinian Skepticism about Moral Realism

Chair: Patricia Marino (Waterloo)

3:05pm - 4:20pm GILBERT HARMAN (Princeton)

Guilt-Free Morality ***KEYNOTE ADDRESS***

4:40pm - 6:00pm DANIEL STAR (ANU) & STEPHEN KEARNS (Oxford/Florida State)

Reasons as Evidence

Chair: Doug Portmore (Arizona State)

DINNER Buraka (543 State Street)

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 9

9:30am - 10:45am PAUL BLOOMFIELD (Connecticut)

Archimedean Points and Why Metaethics Matters

Chair: Charles Starkey (Clemson)

11:00am - 12:15pm LUCA FERRERO (Stanford)

Does the Philosophy of Action Matter for Metaethics

Chair: John Rudisill (College of Wooster)